Tag: PNG

• Why I love Metapost

  I am writing some stuff about Conway’s Game of Life (and Scratch) – thinking about whether it is possible to explain to adults the basics of programming a computer using the Scratch Life script an an example: Life is more suitable for adults than say the Code Club fish chasing game and anyway it gives…

  Adrian McMenamin

  March 24, 2013

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  conways game of life, EPS, Graphical user interface, MetaPost, PNG, Scratch (programming language), vector graphics

• Similarity, difference and compression

  I am in York this week, being a student and preparing for the literature review seminar I am due to give on Friday – the first staging post on the PhD route, at which I have to persuade the department I have been serious about reading around my subject. Today I went to a departmental…

  Adrian McMenamin

  December 12, 2012

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  Birkbeck College, Cardiff University, compression, computer science, difference, Image::Pngslimmer, Kolmogorov complexity, Nick Chater, Perl, PNG, psychology, similarity, Ulrike Hahne, University of York

• A real live GIF

  Noticed that the Bank of England are using GIFs for line drawings when PNGs are much more efficient. This was released this morning:

  Adrian McMenamin

  August 30, 2012

  Uncategorized

  Bank of England, GIF, line drawing, money supply, PNG

• More people getting it wrong about graphics formats

  I subscribe to the Code Project mailing list. So every day I get an email with some links. Some stories are good (I started this blog in response to one). Some are very poor: I highlighted an earlier one about graphics formats like that. And today I am going to do the same thing. Admittedly…

  Adrian McMenamin

  January 17, 2011

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  graphics, JPEG, Lossless data compression, PNG, Portable Network Graphic, Scalable Vector Graphics

• Some advice you should ignore

  I have an interest in graphic formats – I wrote the perl package Image::Pngslimmer a while back when I was hacking some perl database code that delivered (via Ajax) graphs and photographs. I built the whole website for fun and learning purposes and so therefore used PNG graphics when JPEGs would have (for the photographs at least) been more…

  Adrian McMenamin

  December 20, 2010

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  3G, algorithms, bad advice, EDGE, FLAC, GPRS, graphics, JPEG, median cut, MP3, Perl, PNG